TY - BOOK AU - McCullers,Carson AU - Boddy,Kasia TI - The Heart is a lonely hunter T2 - Penguin modern classics SN - 9780141185224 U1 - 813.52 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Deaf KW - Southern States KW - Fiction N1 - Lexile : 760L N2 - Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine ER -